As you may or may not know, the daughtercard is "snapped" or "clipped" onto the motherboard using a multitude of little pins. As your PowerBook is carried, bumped, hit, etc., some of those pins may start loosing contact in an intermittent way, causing random crashes or lock-ups.
Reseating is the operation where you open your Pismo by pulling the keyboard. Then, you remove the shield and you then have access to the daughtercard. You then gently but firmly pry the daughtercard and put it back while making sure that it's properly "snapped" or "clipped". At some point, I had a similar problem with my Pismo. I thought that the processor had been going bad. Symptoms included not able to start the computer. The keyboard would be active, e.g. pressing "Caps Lock" would lit up the key, but that's as far as I could go. Before sending it for service, I reseated the daughtercard and never had problems since then. -Laurent. -- ======================================================================== Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA ************************ Usual disclaimers apply *********************** On 22/03/04 10:58, "earthyfemme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Laurent, > > Could you define 'reseat' please? > > V. Lee > > -----Original Message----- > From: Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Mar 22, 2004 10:14 AM > To: G-Books <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Pismo daughter card > > On 22/03/04 09:51, "cwr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me the difference between the processor card and the >> daughter card in a G3/500 Powerbook? What are the signs of failure of >> either? > > On a Pismo, the processor card *IS* the daughtercard. Signs of failure are > very diverse, from random freeze to the Pismo refusing to boot. Sometimes, > just reseating the daughtercard will do the trick... > > -Laurent. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
